[PLUG] Uninterruptable Sleep: How To Wake It UP

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Eli Stair wrote:

> BTW, if that's a large transfer over dialup or somesuch, you can pull the
> same trick as with stale NFS mounts. Depending on kernel/mount options, you
> can add an entry for the hostname in /etc/hosts, set up an alias for the IP
> on your loopback or ethernet interface, and sometimes change your routing
> table so it catches it locally and presto-chango you've got a dead NFS
> mount you were copying over :)

Eli,

   No, it's local. I rebooted the destination host and that freed the
processes.

   I just tried 'scp -r ...' and the process hung on a specific file, so it's
probably a corrupt file.

Thanks,

Rich

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